Tag Archive for 'potpourri'
July 16th, 2008 by Happy Hour Valley
Being that there’s nothing really noteworthy regarding off-season talk, I figured I’d provide you with a couple amusing articles I dug up from my local and college newspapers.
First, some poor sap got pulled over for a DUI the other day…On a riding lawnmower.
State police at Clearfield were called to a report of an intoxicated man [...]
May 30th, 2008 by Happy Hour Valley
I’ll try to make this a recurring segment every Friday where I leave you with a random video you might enjoy for the weekend. And yes, this is just a temporary name until I can figure up a more creative name involving the word “Weekend.” Any suggestions from my 10 or so readers would [...]
May 20th, 2008 by Happy Hour Valley
As a former high school track athlete myself, my biggest fear always was being accidentally nailed by a flying javelin.
However, I must give major props to one particular photojournalist whose first reaction upon taking one of those sharp things through the skin was to deal with it like an Asian tourist would.
Utah photog captures own [...]
February 26th, 2008 by Happy Hour Valley
If you’re doing a news story about an underage drinking party getting busted, you’d better get your facts 100% straight. Otherwise, you’ll face the wrath of scores of angry, four-letter word-dropping, teens who make a sailor’s vocab seem clean as a Baptist minister’s. Here’s a sample of one such post for your entertainment [...]
January 15th, 2008 by Happy Hour Valley
This video alone makes me want to pick up and learn what has long been stereotyped as a rather feminine instrument…
January 9th, 2008 by Happy Hour Valley
It’s official: “Mom and pop” stores in State College are now extinct. O.W. Houts is closing its doors after 88 years in business.
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to Houts. This is probably due to the fact that State College opened its first [...]
December 23rd, 2007 by Happy Hour Valley
I kid you not: A few nights ago I decided to keep a running diary during my annual viewing of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. It was only appropriate to do so after viewing arguably the greatest X-mas TV special of all time approximately 25,000 times since the age of three. Plus, if [...]
September 20th, 2007 by Happy Hour Valley
Well, I’ve decided to rename “Potpourri Thursday” to something a little more creative. The concept remains the same however: here are some of the awesome sites I’ve discovered over the past week.
I’ll start off with a little shameless plugging for a random PSU student’s blog: I’ll Think About That Tomorrow
- Drunk [...]
September 14th, 2007 by Happy Hour Valley
I recently discovered the most laugh-out-loud/disturbing video in the history of the internet. It’s some 70’s Finnish band doing its own version of the YMCA. Hearing that YMCA intro on the dinky synthesizer(played by a Finnish Jeffrey Dahmer look-a-like) cracks me up every time. Any chance Ed DeChellis or one of [...]
September 1st, 2007 by Happy Hour Valley
Now that I’ve gotten more than ten entries under my belt, people are starting to track me down with some well…interesting Google search terms. Yeah, I know this is a total rip-off of Run Up The Score’s “You Found Me” columns but hey, if Leno and Conan can both do “Headlines” then RUTS and [...]